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1. Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 09:44:05 JST Emmanuele Bassi

   The saddest things of all in IT is the early onset brain rot that makes you look back to the past as a better age, and any new tech as something worse that should be avoided in favour of Ye Olde Solutions.

   Yes, computers suck, but guess what: they always sucked, and there is no prelapsarian golden age to which you can return to.

   • Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 09:44:05 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     Plus, since it's an *early onset* form of brain rot, the "golden age" usually refers to stuff happening less than 10-15 years ago, which is ridiculous, and it's just a form of elitist gatekeeping in the most charitable of cases.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 09:44:05 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     "You should never use Flatpak/Snap! It's all newfangled shit that makes Linux look like a phone!"

     - iPhone: 2007
     - iPhone with actual apps: mid 2008
     - Android (i.e. Linux on a phone): end of 2008
     - Flatpak first release: 2015
     - Snap first release: 2015

     If you complain about this stuff then I expect you're using release tarballs to build your software, like in the Old Days of Slackware at the very least

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Mar-2023 10:19:12 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @ebassi I do admit phone UX has led me to being overly-cynical about sandboxing in the past. I think I do have gripes against FlatHub, but those gripes applies to so much more than just FlatHub!

     But as I implement my own browserengine I have to concur with your sentiment. Before WHATWG turned the web into an application platform, we didn't have great text rendering... Not long before that it was very euro-centric...